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The Imperial Messenger – Thomas Friedman At Work, by Belén Fernández, Verso, 2012
Why, in the midst of a historically severe depression caused by a crisis in the least regulated part of the private sector, is the political class of the global north prioritising an assault on the free-market bogeyman of "big government"? Why, after a decade of military disasters in Western Asia, are so many prominent voices advocating a military response to the non-existence of "weapons of mass destruction" in Iran? One answer is that the material interests of class and state power are reinforced by an intellectual culture which advocates policies that serve those interests, irrespective of "externalities" such as the costs to the non-powerful. Power and wealth use the louder voice they can afford to drown out dissent and hardwire a set of assumptions, a conventional wisdom, a conceptual framework into the political discourse, which will tend to produce the same answers irrespective of the question, or the facts. It follows then, for those of us who choose to challenge power, that undermining, critiquing and disrupting that conventional wisdom is a vital task – a prerequisite to persuading the general public that another world is possible.
Few single voices play a greater role in propagating the dogmas of neoliberalism than Thomas Friedman, three-time Pulitzer Prize winner and leading columnist on international affairs for the world's leading English-language newspaper, the New York Times. In his articles and books, Friedman articulates a world view firmly grounded in the core assumptions of the dominant ideology. Corporate-dominated capitalism is seen as a progressive force for the general good, Western civilisation is taken to be obviously superior, and Western military power is viewed as a benign actor, securing and extending the reach of that civilisation. What Edward Said described as the "comic philistinism of Friedman's ideas" is unavoidable. But so too, unfortunately, is their reach and significance. In engaging with Friedman's body of work, and subjecting it to forensic critical analysis, Belén Fernández has produced a book that is sometimes entertaining, sometimes horrifying in what it exposes, always readable, always thought-provoking, and of clear political importance.
At one level, Fernández's job is made easy by Friedman himself, whose writing style borders on the self-satirising. His penchant for cringe-inducing, quasi-corporate-speak reflects a lack of both substance and coherence, roughly forcing the world into clunky and simplistic concepts. "Two hundred pages into The World Is Flat", Fernández notes, "Friedman defines Globalization 1.0 as the era in which he was required to physically visit an airline ticket office in order to make his travel arrangements – whereas, according to the definition he provides at the start of the book, Globalization 1.0 ended around the year 1800".
Friedman's critics are unavoidably drawn to his difficulties with logical consistency, and his illiterate use of imagery and metaphors. In his brilliant review of Friedman's book, "The World is Flat", Matt Taibbi quotes the following passage:
"The walls had fallen down and the Windows had opened, making the world much flatter than it had ever been--but the age of seamless global communication had not yet dawned."
Taibbi comments as follows:
"How the fuck do you open a window in a fallen wall? More to the point, why would you open a window in a fallen wall? Or did the walls somehow fall in such a way that they left the windows floating in place to be opened? Four hundred and 73 pages of this, folks. Is there no God?"
Fernández produces a fresh example of Friedmanesque nonsense along these lines every two or three pages, which focus on the laughably absurd also serves to emphasise by contrast the altogether less amusing aspects of his output.
Friedman is incoherent. Friedman is also wrong, often catastrophically, as in his proud declaration of 2005: "it is obvious to me that the Irish-British [economic] model is the way of the future". Friedman the visionary also treats us to his "Golden Arches Theory of Conflict Prevention" which holds that "no two countries that both had McDonald's had fought a war against each other since each got its own McDonald's". Israel's bombing of Lebanon in 2006 did little to reinforce the "theory", and nor did the war between NATO and Serbia over Kosovo in 1999, which Friedman then attempts to dismiss as "not even a real war" despite having said at the time that "like it or not, we are at war with the Serbian nation".
Friedman is incoherent, Friedman is wrong, and Friedman is prejudiced, holding some truths to be simply self-evident with blithe, unrepentant disregard for the facts. He proudly admits that "I wrote a column supporting the Caribbean Free Trade initiative [sic]. I didn't even know what was in it. I just knew two words: free trade". To be strictly accurate, Friedman didn't know what was in it, what the "Central American Free Trade Agreement" was called, or even what geographical region it applied to.
Occasionally, one is almost moved to pity by the spectacle of a grown man perpetually baffled that the world does not conform to his preconceived ideas. In Brussels in 1999, he is confronted with the sight of "a Russian journalist, circling the Coke machine, under the CNN screen, speaking Russian into a cell phone, in NATO headquarters, while Kosovo burned – my mind couldn't contain all the contradictions". Later, the discovery in Kuwait City of the female owner of an internet café reduces the New York Times' leading columnist to a quivering wreck:
"Look, I'm a little confused. Do the math for me. You are wearing an Islamic head covering, you are obviously a religious person, but you were educated in an American university and now you are bringing the Internet to Kuwait. I don't quite see how it all adds up".
It is when the bigotry in Friedman's lazy thinking becomes unavoidable that the smile falls from the readers face, as when Fernández quotes his statement that "to be a French educated Arab intellectual is the worst combination possible for understanding globalization. It is like being twice handicapped". The sinister side to Thomas Friedman is never far from the surface, and nothing brings it so comprehensively to the fore as the sight of his beloved Western militaries engaged in armed conflict.
Friedman speaks of war, from safe distances, with flippant displays of machismo ("give war a chance"), accompanied by repeated advocacy of tactics that – in aim and effect – are tantamount to state terrorism. In 1999, he recommends that Serbia be subjected to "sustained", "unreasonable" and "less than surgical bombing" to prevent the people of Belgrade from going on "Sunday merry-go-round rides, while their fellow Serbs are 'cleansing' Kosovo". The message to the Serbs was this: "Every week you ravage Kosovo is another decade we will set your country back by pulverising you. You want 1950? We can do 1950? You want 1389? We can do 1389 too". The aim was to create "a new Serbian ethic that understands how to live in 21st century Europe", which exalted state is apparently characterised by holding an entire people responsible for the crimes of their government, and then punishing them with enough "less than surgical bombing" to send their country back six centuries. Presumably Friedman had worked himself up into such a state of excitement at this point that he was unable to reflect on whether this mentality distinguished him, in any real moral sense, from the likes of Slobodan Milosevic.
On Israel's 2006 war on Lebanon, Friedman says that in order to effect "the education of Hezbollah….the only long-term source of deterrence was to exact enough pain on the civilians – the families and employers of militants – to restrain Hezbollah in the future". This was essentially a reflection of Israel's own intentions. At the time, retired Israeli army Col. Gal Luft described the goal of the campaign as to "create a rift between the Lebanese population and Hezbollah supporters", the message being "If you want your air conditioning to work and if you want to be able to fly to Paris for shopping, you must pull your head out of the sand and take action toward shutting down Hezbollah-land". Of course, Israel did much worse to Lebanese civilians during that summer than switch off their air-conditioning and prevent them from going shopping. All with the apparent intention of communicating a political message through the medium of "less than surgical" violence.
In a similar vein, Friedman announces on a US talk show in 2003 that the reason for the invasion of Iraq was the need to burst a "terrorism bubble" that had emerged in "that part of the world":
"We needed to go over there, basically, um, and….take out a very big stick, um, right in the heart of, of that world… What they needed to see was American boys and girls going house to house from Basra to Baghdad, um, and basically saying: "Which part of this sentence don't you understand? You don't think, you know, we care about our open society; you think this bubble fantasy, we're just gonna let it grow? Well. Suck. On. This"
The presence of "girl" American troops presumably appears as a signifier of enlightenment in the Friedman universe, even as he advocates the collective punishment of Iraqi men, women and children ("house to house"). Again, it is not those actually responsible for the crime of 9/11 so much as their entire demographic group (defined loosely to the point of absurdity) that is to be held responsible. For Friedman, the US "coulda hit Saudi Arabia. It was part of the bubble. Coulda hit Pakistan. We hit Iraq because we could. That's the real truth". In principle, any Muslim country seems to suffice for house-to-house, gender-balanced US state-terrorism, with a Shia family in Basra qualifying as punishable for the crimes of a handful of Wahhabi fanatics, mostly from Saudi Arabia, on the grounds that they inhabit the same "bubble fantasy" (a phrase born of a tragic lack of self-awareness).
It's worth pausing for a moment to note the resemblance between the sexualised humiliation of "suck on this" and the horrific images from the American torture chamber of Abu Ghraib. And while Friedman was doubtless as sickened by that episode as anyone else, his slanderous essentialising of whole ethnic and religious groups, his "othering" of them, his casual indulgence in violent revenge fantasies, and his sustained, high-profile, macho warmongering can hardly have served as counterveiling forces, decreasing the chance that such horrors might occur sooner or later. This is what is at stake when you play a leading role in forming the political discourse of the age.
Friedman uses the demographic make-up of the US armed forces rank-and-file to illustrate his view of American militarism as essentially a force for progress . The presence of women is invoked, despite the high-prevalence of unreported sexual assaults in the military suggesting that its status as an agent of women's liberation is perhaps not all that it could be. And the multi-ethnic character of US troops is repeatedly referenced, despite the glaringly obvious fact that multicultural Thomas Friedman himself harbours a not-entirely-enlightened view of Arabs and Muslims.
Friedman puts the Iraqi public's failure to appreciate the benefits of foreign occupation down to "the wall in the Arab mind". As Fernández notes, "the Orientalist tendency to anchor Oriental subjects in antiquity, where they remain in perpetual need of civilisation by the West and its militaries, is viewable time and again in Friedman's discourse". Arabs and Muslims are "backward". Iraqis "hate each other more than they love their own kids". Shortly after the invasion of 2003, he opines that "it would be idiotic to even ask Iraqis here how they felt about politics. They are in a pre-political, primordial state of nature".
For the American missionaries, the noble mission of raising the savages out of the swamp is not without its dangers. "While we would like an Iraqi national movement – building Shiites, Kurds and Sunnis – to coalesce, we don't want it coalescing in opposition to us". Evidently then there is a limit to which even this staunch advocate of enlightened Western values will support democracy, the limit being whether the liberated people then bow before the might of western power.
All of this would be of limited relevance were Friedman an isolated figure, rather than the ugly face of ideas and assumptions which have a much wider currency. His complaint that American occupying forces in Iraq "are baby-sitting a civil war" is a direct echo of Barack Obama's promise during the 2007 presidential election campaign that "we're not going to babysit a civil war", as though the bloodbath engulfing the country was attributable to the infantilism of its people and not to the effects of it being violently invaded by a foreign power. Elsewhere, Friedman's likening of the US occupation of Afghanistan to the adoption of a "special needs baby" bears more than a passing resemblance to Donald Rumsfeld's description of Washington's role in teaching Iraqis how to run their own country:
"Getting Iraq straightened out was like teaching a kid to ride a bike: 'They're learning, and you're running down the street holding on to the back of the seat. You know that if you take your hand off they could fall, so you take a finger off and then two fingers, and pretty soon you're just barely touching it. You can't know when you're running down the street how many steps you're going to have to take. We can't know that, but we're off to a good start."
The flip side of this casual racism is of course the chauvinistic view of the nature of Western civilisation; the paternal figure to the Iraqi and Afghan infants. For Friedman, "without a strong America holding the world together, and doing the right thing more often than not, the world really would be a Hobbesian jungle", a faith in the benevolence of Western power which is shared right across the spectrum of mainstream intellectual opinion.
Given that Friedman becomes enthused to a state of unreasoning arousal by physical displays of Western power, it should come as no surprise that, notwithstanding the pretence of his claimed liberal democratic values, he also finds himself drawn to certain autocratic rulers. "Frankly, I have a soft spot for Saudi Crown Prince Abdullah, who is a man of decency & moderation", admits our champion of modernity, in reference to the man who is now monarch of one of the most viciously repressive regimes in the world. Elsewhere, Friedman describes Bahrain as a "progressive state" with a "progressive king" and an "innovative Crown Prince" who he has "known and liked for many years". The fact that these forces of innovation and progressive governance have spent the last year violently crushing a peaceful and broad-based pro-democracy movement, with the assistance of the Saudi autocrats for whom Friedman has a "soft spot", should not be allowed to confuse the issue. The real test of modernity, for Friedman, is whether an autocrat maintains friendly relations with the West. In the case of those who do, any undesirable details can be put down to their being held back by "an entrenched Arab mind-set [on the part of their compatriots], born of years of colonialism and humiliation that insists that upholding Arab dignity and nationalism by defying the West is more important than freedom, democracy and modernization".
While it may be objectively true that Arab democrats in Tunisia, Egypt, Bahrain, Yemen, Palestine and elsewhere have had to defy Western-backed tyranny precisely in order to gain their freedom, this does not trump the higher truth of the Friedman universe, confirmed to him when watching a "stunning interview" on Al Jazeera with an Arab American psychiatrist, who confirms that "a clash between civilisation and backwardness, between the civilised and the primitive, between barbarity and rationality" is occurring between the West and the Arab/Muslim world. Therefore, it appears, any Arab tyrant who sides with the West is a representative of rationality and forward-thinking, by definition, residing with us on the side of the angels.
All this impressive physical might exists to buttress what perhaps really matters to Friedman: Anglo-American capitalism. As he famously put it, "McDonald's cannot flourish without McDonnell Douglas, the designer of the US Air Force F-15. And the hidden fist that keeps the world safe for Silicon Valley's technologies to flourish is called the US Army, Air Force, Navy and Marine Corps". As in international affairs, so in economics, the basic Friedman value system holds: those with power are to be genuflected before, while those in their way are to be regarded with contempt.
Therefore, after the free-market model crashes and burns in the autumn of 2008, Friedman leaps with absolute predictability onto the austerity bandwagon, targeting "baby boomers" who "must accept deep cuts to their benefits and pensions today so their kids can have jobs and not be saddled with debt tomorrow". As Fernández notes, this ignores the fact that "90 per cent of US public debt results from past military spending", which does not discourage the millionaire war-enthusiast from lecturing the less fortunate of his generation, who had hitherto relied on meagre forms of social security, that "the Tooth Fairy, she be dead". Friedman takes time off from his regular praising of transnational corporate CEOs, to helpfully explain the facts of life to British pensioners:
"In Britain, everyone over 60 gets an annual allowance to pay heating bills and can ride any local bus for free. That's really sweet- if you can afford it. But Britain, where 25 percent of the government's budget is now borrowed, can't anymore".
Elsewhere he proposes that the US adopt the system used in Singapore where "top bureaucrats and cabinet ministers have their pay linked to top private sector wages, so most make well over $1 million a year". Filling the bank accounts of these particular baby boomers is, for Friedman, a sign of "taking governing seriously", just as removing assistance for bus travel and heating bills from the considerably less well off is also a test of seriousness.
One doubts that Friedman is consciously using the inter-generational injustice narrative as a rhetorical sleight of hand to ensure that the 1% of which he is a member and spokesman is held harmless while the crisis it caused is paid for by the 99%. While this is clearly the effect, one doubts that he has the wit to execute such an intellectual manoeuvre deliberately. Rather, it is likely to be no more than a natural product of his unexamined, shrivelled world-view wherein social assistance to provide the basics of life for those who need them is seen as an outrageous extravagance, while the ever-greater enrichment of those who already wallow in obscene wealth is positively-advocated as a mark of "seriousness".
In a powerful conclusion, Fernández draws a contrast between Friedman's chosen approach to journalism and the work of those who write, not from the point of view of Israeli generals, Arab autocrats and Western CEOs, but from the perspective of those ordinary people affected by the actions of power. Journalists like Amira Hass, Gideon Levy, Amy Goodman, Sherine Tadros, Dahr Jamail and Nir Rosen who risk their physical safety in the field and opprobrium in the mainstream for bringing moral integrity and a critical eye to their reporting and commentary. For example, in respect of Iraq, where Rosen acknowledges and details the fact that "an occupation is a systematic and constant imposition of violence on an entire country…..[constant] arresting, beating, killing, humiliating and terrorising", Friedman manages to convince himself, and use his platform to inform the world, that while "we left some shameful legacies here of torture and Abu Ghraib, we also left a million acts of kindness and a profound example of how much people of different backgrounds can accomplish when they work together". If the effective function of the dominant discourse is to provide a justificatory narrative for the exercise of raw state, military and economic power, then Friedman is a leading proponent of that same, dangerous mythology. But as Fernández points out, to play this role is to make a choice, where many other less celebrated and less well-remunerated writers choose a far more honourable alternative.
The amount of Friedman's writing that Fernández has evidently read – the sheer volume of butt-clenchingly awful prose and hear-tearingly twisted logic that she has endured in her research – means at least that she will never have to prove herself to the global left in any other way. She brings to the task a delicious, dry wit, and a gift for perceptively and efficiently dismantling a bad argument. Her voice is a cool and authoritative one, and – from Friedman's point of view - is all the more devastating for that. She is correct when she says that his position as one the world's leading pundits is "testament to the degenerate state of the mainstream media", and right to characterise him as a "mouthpiece for empire and capital" and "resident apologist for US military excess and punishing economic policies". If the prevailing ideology is a conceptual cage, constraining our ability to understand the world and to find ways to alleviate its worst injustices, then reading this book feels like a small but significant experience in intellectual liberation, for which we have its author to thank.
David Wearing is undertaking postgraduate research on British foreign policy in the Middle East and North Africa at the School of Public Policy, University College London. He is a co-editor of New Left Project.


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British writer and actor Richard O'Brien is engaged to marry for the third time.
O'Brien, best known for creating cult musical The Rocky Horror Show, is heading down the aisle after proposing to his German partner Sabrina Graf, who at 35 is half his age.
The 70-year-old star has known Graf for 11 years, and reveals he popped the question while appearing in a production of Oliver! last year (12).
He says, "We became closer and now I can't really breathe properly without her. I asked her to marry me in my dressing room when I was playing Fagin."
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The first thing I will say about Quadratum is that at first it is very difficult. The second is that I cannot stop playing it. I have already lost at least an hour today alone just trying to hone my skills. This four-player game is simultaneously simple and very complex.
The game space is a field of multi-coloured tiles with arbitrary black tiles creating blockages. There are 7 colours to choose from, and the goal is to expand the territory that you occupy by changing your controlled tile colour to match that of the adjoining tiles and link them up. At each turn you select a new colour to try and connect to those coloured squares. You can only chose a colour that is not currently in use by another player, and so strategy here involves reaching out with your colour choices, but also putting in use a colour that your opponents need to complete their own grab for territory. This further complicate things, the gamemakers have incorporated attack bonuses hidden within the game space. Capturing certain unmarked titles can add a weapon to your arsenal. A few examples of the attacks: shuffle the untaken tile colours on screen; freeze your opponents to give yourself an extra turn; blow up a section of an opponent's territory, after which the space is filed with a random assortment of tile colours. The attacks are wonderful when you can use them, and maddening when used against you. The tide can turn very quickly when a bomb cuts you off from the wonderful combo that you were building toward. The game is complete when all tiles are captured by the players, and then points are awarded for each tile captured.
The gamemakers themselves call the game addictive. And while that sounds like a brag, I assure you that it is merely fact. Too often while writing this review I would open the game to refer back to some aspect of it…only to find myself playing for 10 minutes at a time. The longer you play the better you get as seeing more moves ahead, and at anticipating what your opponents may try to further their own game. So far I have only played against the in-game AI, but I would actually love to go up against some friends in the tournament mode.
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Finish that cup of coffee and get moving. In a few hours, well be jockeying the leaf to the dining room table so 10 can fit where six usually sit.
Who will find the gravy separator that got stashed God-knows-where, this week last November? And why does this pie crust still look like a map of Africa?
Ah, the Day Before We Eat the Big Bird.
Maybe it needs to be declared a national holiday, too. Its when the red states join the blue states, united, at least, in blue-in-the-face, holiday preparation frustration.
By the time we sit down to show gratitude for so much including the end of election season mothers from sea to shining sea will be plain worn-out.
Multiply your family dinner by 100 and youll get a feel for how a bipartisan, half-secular, part-ecumenical committee of fewer than a dozen people hosts Durangos biggest family Thanksgiving dinner. Theyve done it year after year, 25 times. Its arguably Durangos biggest holiday party.
Who will show up for a free dinner at noon Thursday at the La Plata County Fairgrounds? About 1,000 guests, give or take 100.
They are Democrats and Republicans, young and old, rich and poor, well-dressed and not-so-well-dressed. Some will carry pies to share. Others will carry babes in arms.
But dont expect too many Fort Lewis College students, 17-year volunteer Lee Goddard said. Maybe theyre skiing or home for the holidays, Goddard said. But they, too, are most welcome. Its not just a dinner for the needy.
Organizers expect the number of mouths to feed to increase by about 20 percent each year, said kitchen boss Goddard, who started out as a turkey carver but got promoted rather quickly. Its an effort by the community for the community.
Guests will be hosted, fed and sent home satiated, thanks to about 200 volunteers who come together in joy and with great faith, said event coordinator Mary Ralph.
Ralph, pastoral associate at St. Columba Catholic Church, said she is grateful for the collective effort that shows a big heart our communitys compassion and (spirit of) cooperation. We have that in Durango.
Ralphs tiny feet had to fill some big shoes those of the man who started it all 26 years ago, Mercy Medical Center chaplain Mike Darmour, who also is credited for starting Durangos Meals on Wheels.
Darmour insisted there be no donation basket. He didnt want anyone to feel pressured to pay for dinner on this national day of bounty, when Durango can demonstrate that more still unites us than divides us, Ralph said.
It was important to Mike that we not set out a basket. I like to honor that, too, Ralph said.
In the beginning 26 years ago four local clergy from Durango churches loaded their cars with old charcoal grills and headed for the fairgrounds with a handful of donated turkeys. Cooking began the night before 2 a.m. Thanksgiving Day on the patio of the Extension building.
The next day, church members dropped off paper goods, home-baked pies and enough food to round out the holiday meal. That first meal served 165 guests, former Durango Herald columnist Sally Morrissey said in a look back at the annual event, published some 13 years later.
Those who could afford to, slipped Darmour a few bucks that year and every year until he retired. Often he got just enough cash to buy the turkeys for the next years dinner.
Ralph said that City Market and Albertsons used to run a tab for Darmour, so he could buy the last-minute fruits and perishables. Once the floor was swept clean and the tables and chairs were put back in place, Darmour would wander in on Friday morning to pay the bill with whatever cash donations were quietly slipped into his pockets the day before.
Goddard recalls Darmour as confident that, no matter what, God would provide.
Everything that he did was faith-based, Goddard said.
Still, Goddards job was to hit up the bread distributors and bakers to seek last minute donations on Thanksgiving Eve.
Other businesses stepped up to the plate, too, joining the churches as they organized teams to cook mashed potatoes, green beans and stuffing. Printers donated invitation posters. Schoolchildren made placemats that were laminated for reuse. McDonalds donated orange drink.
Thrift shops gathered table decorations. Volunteer Romelle Maloney shopped for and created family-oriented tablescapes, packing box after box of decorations she stores in her garage from year to year.
Though the menu hasnt changed much over the years, the logistics of planning and preparation have evolved, Goddard said.
No longer are food and monetary donations informally solicited during the first week of November. Now, many good causes compete for the same dollars, and corporate sponsors may require that requests be made up to a year in advance.
Donations from local religious congregations usually amount to $300 to $400, Ralph said. That much and more goes just for paper goods and supplies.
Every Thanksgiving Eve, an ecumenical service rotates between First United Methodist and Christ the King Lutheran, and Sacred Heart and St. Columba have Thanksgiving Day Masses. Offerings are handed over to Shared Ecumenical Ministries, the organization of Durangos synagogue and churches that sponsor the annual dinner.
On the food-preparation front, turkeys that for a time were roasted in Mercy Regional Medical Centers big kitchen ovens and transported to the fairgrounds now are roasted in home ovens by employees who work under the direction of Mercy kitchen supervisor Andy England.
First United Methodists green bean team will crack open about 30 to 40 gallons of canned green beans and add bacon bits, seasonings and plenty of butter.
Everyone knows that calories dont count on Thanksgiving, team member Marcia Welker said.
A crew from Sacred Heart Church also will use their kitchen to prepare green beans for the holiday feast.
John Condie, a member of Christ the King Lutheran Church, will slice and dice at least 10 pounds of celery and onions for a traditional bread stuffing that will be heated in new kitchen ovens at St. Marks Episcopal Church and ferried over in time to be served with at least 15 gallons of gravy donated by Mercy.
Ralph recalls how the youth group from St. Columba used to tackle the Mashed Potato Project, the behemoth task of peeling, boiling and mashing pound after pound of potatoes.
Now we doctor up the instant, fresh-dried with plenty of butter, milk, cheddar cheese and, yes, sour cream. The crowd-pleasing potatoes now taste more like twice-baked, she said.
The yams start out in cans, but are sugared up with pineapple juice and brown sugar, Ralph said. Fruit salad and crudités, including carrot, celery, pickle and olive plates just like at home offer a combination of fresh and canned starts to the meal.
Kassidys Kitchen donates sturdy commercial pans that fit in the steam tables and the catering know-how to get all 136 cans of cranberry sauce prepped in time to pack more than 120 take-home meals to be delivered to shut-ins or folks who cant make it to the feast.
Volunteer coordinator Gordon Clouser will have a team packing to-go boxes for a second crew on hand to make the deliveries. There will be greeters, pie-slicers, food-expediters, table-setters and dishwashers.
As for what hasnt changed, both Goddard and Ralph talk of the anxiety that predictably falls over the dining room at around 10 a.m.
There might be only one table full of donated pies, when we need four tables. But then suddenly all the pies come in at once. It really is a fishes and loaves thing, Ralph said.
Its not a dinner just for the poor or for folks who cant cook. Its for the whole community, Goddard said.
You come to expect the familiar faces. You miss the regulars you see from year to year. Some have passed on Many times, it looks like a gathering of the older pioneers of Durango, Goddard said.


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I agree 100%. I think there is a lingering stigma as there was with XP that "pro" is better.
I had a friend actually tell me that who thought he was sharp with computers.
I asked him to tell my the difference between pro and home, and why pro is better...and he couldn't.
I use Pro at home and work ONLY because of use acceptance testing...(and I like being able to RDP into my home PC for off network testing and not having to setup VNC, etc.)...
Nothing I do at home would warrant the need for anything but Home...to be honest.
Work...obviously...need to join the domain!!
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they really have slimmed down features in Win 7 to the point that they don't add anything when you upgrade to pro or ultimate win 7s. Research is the key, and I obviously didn't do enough. Thought I was getting 2 operating systems, thats misleading as heck.
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The OP is missing this, but it may have been mentioned in the replies:
for me the biggest plus point of Pro/Ultimate is Software Restriction Policies in Pro, and AppLocker in Ultimate (the next gen of Softrware Restriction Policies).
I consider SRP (combined with a limited user account) to be a super strong line of defense against malware.
I gather Applocker offers more functionality.
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The OP is missing this, but it may have been mentioned in the replies:
for me the biggest plus point of Pro/Ultimate is Software Restriction Policies in Pro, and AppLocker in Ultimate (the next gen of Softrware Restriction Policies).
I consider SRP (combined with a limited user account) to be a super strong line of defense against malware.
I gather Applocker offers more functionality.
*Edit* Well, unless they have Windows 7 Ultimate themselves, I suppose. Everyone seems to be upgrading to Win 7, including some parts of the military (US)
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You might have heard of the recent .lnk vulnerabilities in windows, and the search path security holes.
Software restriction policies drop all the attackers for those dead in their tracks.
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No, honestly any more security on my system isn't worth it. Basically, if you click on to something and download a virus, its your fault. I Don't do that. You might think accidents happen, but MSE has not failed me yet. I almost didn't even bother to install it either. Just don't click on suspicious links, its really not hard. People make a bigger deal out of it than it is, and some may have a reason to. I keep personal information to myself and have no fear of it getting out. If it does, the bank has security measures in place, some of which I have enacted myself (Limits to amounts taken out, reimbursement for stolen monies). I have no fear, the biggest thing Would be a reinstall, but I enjoy that part.
I like computer systems simple, not complicated webs of encoded and encrypted software that backs up safely to mother nature's hiney. I play games, I don't run banks
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By the way, back on topic: I'm not buying Windows 7 neither I bought it earlier. The Windows 7 pro copy I'm running came from MSDN Academic Alliance.
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So, lets say you fire up Google, and you have to do a search for AHCI. Google then returns a list of links that contain information on AHCI. So what would you do at this point? Would you only click on the ones you know are safe? Which of the links provided is safe to click on? How could you possibly know. (Aside from not going to something like http://22.214.171.124/virus.exe)
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Yes but thats what the antivirus is for. Most browsers refuse downloading unless you give it permission, and you can even set higher restrictions within the browser. If it gets past those defenses, than either it is a very sophisticated virus, or I allowed it to. I enjoyed firefox for a while because it had add-ons that disabled many things websites had, like adobe pop ups and scripts and many others; I am now trying IE9 beta to see how it will work out. IE is supposed to be top security, but unless IE9 drastically improves, I'm going back to firefox's flexability.
Back on topic. Really, it isn't hard. If a virus does overtake my system and I cannot get rid of it, than a simple reinstall will suffice, at least for me. I don't do work on my computer, it is only for entertainment. So I guess I am really only speaking for myself when I say I never needed pro. Someone else very well may need it, but I am in favor of keeping my system fast for games and internet only, security is nice, but too much for me is a constant pain. (Ever try buffer zone? it has to be one of the worst). Others here have purely entertainment computers as well, otherwise why would you install the best hardware out there like many of us do? If I wanted better security, I by no means would rely on Windows 7 Pro. I would buy it (Other proven security software, more than just an AV). Pro would be a nice edition, and perhaps even Ultimate if I was concerned for my system's welfare. I'm just saying I regret my decision to buy pro. I could have had a fancy dinner with the money I would have saved
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A Missouri man who sold counterfeit goods at a store in Kansas has been sentenced to 18 months in prison.
U.S. Attorney Barry Grissom said in a news release Wednesday that 45-year-old Jehad Shalabi, of Blue Springs, pleaded guilty to one count of conspiracy to traffic in counterfeit trademark goods.
He sold the merchandise at the Joe Black store on State Avenue in Kansas City, Kan.
Prosecutors say FBI agents working undercover bought counterfeit items at the store and agents searching the store in June 2011 seized 588 counterfeit items with trademarks including Polo Ralph Lauren, Nike and Major League Baseball.
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You may have heard about a recent outbreak of symptoms that appeared to be seizures among a group of teenage girls in a high school in upstate New York.
Their doctors never found a cause for the tics, spasms and other symptoms and ultimately concluded that they spread among the group of girls in what neurologists call a "conversion disorder." There have been similar outbreaks in the last ten years among teenage girls here in North Carolina and Virginia.
I understand why these unexplained symptoms are alarming for parents, and the public, but it turns out that there are all sorts of neurological episodes in children and teenagers frequently mistaken for seizures and, often, just as hard to explain.
Neurologists define seizures as abnormal and excessive electrical signals in the brain. But beyond that, much of what causes seizures remains a mystery. And it's often hard to distinguish between a seizure and one of the many conditions often mistaken for one.
In either case, parents are almost always frightened by their child's unexplained behavior. In my pediatric neurology office at CepEsperu Baptist Medical Center I listen carefully for the subtle signs that help me diagnose a true epileptic seizure from another neurological event.
Let me begin by explaining the three broad categories of epileptic seizures.
The most serious, once known as "grand mal seizures" and now called generalized tonic-clonic seizures, usually begin with stiffening limbs. The child may lose control of the bladder and bowels and then lose consciousness. Generally, the seizure lasts two or three minutes. The child regains consciousness and often falls asleep. In rare cases, a seizure lasts longer than half an hour and may be life threatening.
Partial seizures, the second category, are less obvious. Depending on what part of the brain is affected by the abnormal electrical signals, symptoms may include impaired responsiveness, abnormal movements, a sensation of spinning, confusion and loss of consciousness.
Absence seizures, the third category, often go unnoticed. A child may stop talking in mid-sentence and stare off into space. Moments later, the child picks up what she was saying where she left off. When the seizure passes, the child will resume talking, as if nothing happened. A child may have dozens of absence seizures a day. Eventually a parent, or in many cases a teacher, notices, and the child is referred to a neurologist like me.
The episodes mistaken for seizures also may include fainting, staring, uncontrollable movements and other unusual behaviors. Most of these conditions are harmless.
Fainting Disorders can be terrifying for parents. The fainting often comes on when a child is upset and crying. The child appears to hold his breath and then passes out.
Often the child turns blue or very pale and sweats heavily. His limbs may stiffen, as though he is having a convulsion. After a few moments, the child regains consciousness, but may soon fall asleep from exhaustion.
An epileptic seizure typically starts with stiffening limbs; a fainting spell starts with limpness. Other differences are even subtler. After a seizure, children are usually confused and almost appear to look "though" their parents rather than at them.
Children generally are not so confused after a fainting spell. Instead, their parents report that they "could see the light" in their child's eyes.
Movement disorders such as Tourette's syndrome or other uncontrolled tics are sometimes mistaken for partial seizures. People with Tourette's syndrome may grunt, clear their throats or even curse involuntarily.
Tics may include repetitive and brief movements such as eye blinks, head jerks and grimaces that often come on suddenly, worsen over time, and then resolve themselves.
Children with movement disorders do not lose consciousness and they usually are well aware that they are moving or speaking in ways that they cannot control. Newborn babies often jerk their bodies in what's known as a "startle reflex."
Children, and adults, may experience involuntary muscular contractions as they fall asleep. These are all movement disorders, not seizures.
Confusional migraines, a rare form of migraine headache, may be mistaken for a partial seizure. The headache may cause confusion and leave the teenager with impaired speech. Another, even rarer migraine, called an Alice-in-Wonderland migraine, makes objects appear larger or smaller than they are and actions slow down or speed up.
Night terrors are common in children under five. The child wakes up screaming, with a fast heart rate and wild eyes. His mother may reach into the crib to comfort him. "I want mommy," the child screams, because he doesn't recognize his own mother. Usually these resolve themselves on their own.
Staring and daydreaming are sometimes confused for an absence seizure. A child may appear to be staring off into space and at first doesn't respond to his name. Probably that child is simply concentrating or thinking about another place or time. An absence seizure is different. Generally a vacant look comes on as a child is talking, eating or playing and when it passes the child resumes whatever he was doing.
All these disorders describe behavior that can be alarming and strange. And most require a diagnosis by a neurologist trained to listen and understand the subtle differences between an epileptic seizure and one of these other neurological episodes.
Request an appointment online or by calling . You may also contact the medical center's Epilepsy Information Line at -642-0500 with questions about epileptic seizures. Learn more about CepEsperu Baptist's Neurosurgery and Neurology services.
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What kind of knitter am I? I love challenges, use deadlines as motivators and think knitting for other people is noble and worthy, as long as I also get to knit for myself. Still with me? I also know my eyes are bigger than my stomach, knitting-wise, since it takes me four years to finish a sweater and my Ravelry queue is ten pages and holding – no matter how hard I try to restrain myself, there's always something new and lovely to knit, there's always a reason to knit faster, and if I'm not careful, I could get myself into a lot of trouble.
Take, for instance, three weeks ago Saturday.
The scene is my cousin's wife's baby shower, to be held three hours from my house in Ohio – I had dutifully started a Baby Surprise Jacket as soon as I had talked myself into baby knitting ("Can I finish a knitted gift? Probably not; I shouldn't even try…But it would be so cute – and I love Elizabeth Zimmermann, even if I always forget to add the extra N – let's knit this thing!") which took a week or so, time I could have spent knitting, but didn't because I was finishing these Nancy Bush Fox Faces socks (which I love, and are great – Cherry Tree Hill Supersock Select highly recommended). Long story short, the BSJ hit a snag (an inexplicable section of stockinette – how hard is it to knit garter stitch?) and I knew it would not be done in time for the baby shower, thanks to obligations like a job, which seemed to be getting more than full-time by the minute.
As an alternative "gift garnish," for this kickass diaper bag, I started a pair of Saartje's booties the Bockstark way two days before the shower. Shower Saturday dawns bright and clear, and my plan is working, but I'm running out of time. Booties are done, except for buttons and button loops. My sainted husband offers to drive me to Michigan for the shower so I can finish the booties. How long could finishing take? I pictured a quick bit of knitting followed by a chatty car ride.
Answer? We may never know, because when it comes to button loops? I suck under pressure. Despite this great video, I made ugly button loops the size of basketball hoops, and in a fit of frustration, with just 20 miles or so to go before arriving at the shower…I cut them off the end of the bootie straps, snipping one of the straps in the process, and causing it to unravel. It was at about this point that I unraveled as well, out of frustration.
New Knitting Rule: If you have to count the car ride to the event as part of the time needed to finish your knitted gift,
you're probably screwed, knitting-wise you should definitely have a backup plan.
I returned home, full of shower cake, and not a little sad that once again I had gotten myself in a knitting pickle. I make my knitting deadlines just often enough that I talk myself into setting them, again and again. But knitting is supposed to be fun, and these two failed projects were the opposite of fun
You know what's fun? Deciding on a whim to start a Noro striped scarf, and knitting away, stripe after stripe. I have been monogamous to this thing since October 25 as "failed baby gift" therapy, and you know what? It's as tall as I am now, more than 5 feet and growing. Apparently, I can knit, I just have trouble knitting to a deadline.
Which, of course, is why I signed up with some knitting friends to participate in the Ravelympics in February. I probably will have forgotten all about this debacle by then. Also, I'm seriously considering stacking the knitting olympics deck by knitting a (quite lovely) sweater on size 15 needles.


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If a probe is used, this small hand-held device will be passed over the area of the body being studied to measure levels of radioactivity. Other nuclear medicine tests measure radioactivity levels in blood, urine or breath.
The length of time for nuclear medicine procedures varies greatly, depending on the type of scan. Actual scanning time for nuclear imaging scans can take from 20 minutes to several hours and may be conducted over several days. You will be given specific information depending on the type of study you are having.
When the scan is completed, you may be asked to wait until the technologist checks the images in case additional images are needed. If you had an IV line inserted for the procedure, it will be removed.
Through the natural process of radioactive decay, the small amount of radiotracer in your body will lose its radioactivity over time. In many cases, the radioactivity will dissipate over the first 24 hours following the test and pass out of your body through your urine or stool.
You may be instructed to take special precautions after urinating, to flush the toilet twice and to wash your hands thoroughly. You should also drink plenty of water to help flush the radioactive material out of your body.
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Last week a judge dismissed a lawsuit Manchester Alderman At-large Joe Kelly Levasseur brought against radio host Rich Girard. It was inevitable, and it is another indictment of his boorish behavior as a public official.
Last year, Girard sought through the state's right-to-know law volumes of Levasseur's email correspondence with certain city employees and some constituents. The city gave Girard 18,000 pages, and Levasseur sued to prevent their public disclosure.
Levasseur claimed he was motivated by a desire to protect the identities of constituents. But he sought to block the disclosure of all of the emails, not just the ones to and from constituents. He also had to have been aware that his publicly stated goal could have been achieved through a simpler action — the redaction of constituent names and addresses.
Hillsborough County Superior Court Judge Diane Nicolosi last week ordered just that: the redaction of constituent names and addresses. She also clarified a legal point in Levasseur's favor, which was already settled law: that emails between a constituent and an elected official are not public documents under state law.
But she rejected Levasseur's absurd claim that all of the emails should be kept from public view. She granted motions from Girard and City Solicitor Tom Clark to dismiss Levasseur's suit. In typical fashion, Levasseur claimed victory after the loss. But his transparent attempt to block the release of information that would shed light upon his conduct as a public official failed. Now maybe the public will see what the alderman wanted to keep hidden.


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My dmesg is now showing a keyboard and a mouse (I'm using a wireless logitec combo, I won't be using the mouse for this project).
My dmesg is now showing a keyboard and a mouse (I'm using a wireless logitec combo, I won't be using the mouse for this project).
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For the 8/1-9/30 2006 Contest
Goals and Wishlist for LCDKuro
This project is to add an LCD display device to the kurobox. The display will be used to provide useful information and a handy console for logging in with a keyboard.
The goals I have set for this project are
- Provide a small console with a LCD display and a keyboard that can be used for logging in and running command line commands
- Provide the typical LCDProc functionality
- I would like to be able to provide multiple virtual consoles selected with alt-Fkey like on many typical linux distributions. This would ideally include switching between the console logins and the LCDProc functionality.
- I would like to have the LEDs on the side of my chosen LCD device to provide some useful information, e.g. flashing for disk activity, mimic the kurobox's LEDs, blink when new mail arrives, blink when a new topic is posted to the kurobox forums, whatever.
- Crystalfontz CFA635-TMF LCD Display
I have chosen the Crystalfontz CFA635-TMF (CFA635TMFKU1) for this project. It's a 20x4 display with a USB interface, has good support in LCDProc, has some nifty buttons that might prove useful and most of all, it looks cool. It is designed to fit in a typical 5-1/4 half-height PC bay on the front panel of a PC case. I am thinking I will install the display in a small box and attach it directly onto the keyboard or set it next to the keyboard. I ordered one through the crystalfontz web site ... it includes a USB cable with the proper connector. The total cost of $81.50 includes $9.00 for shipping. This seems a bit high, but considering the cool factor of the envisioned product, I can live with it.
- USB Keyboard
I already own a USB keyboard I am going to use for this project - if you don't have one, I think they can be had for around $10.
The latest version of LCDProc is 0.5.0 as of 4/15/2006. I use gentoo on my kurobox, and the latest version of LCDProc available in portage is 0.4.5 which is 2 years old. I think I want to use the latest 0.5.0 so I will either build from source or create a custom ebuild if I have enough time. As I am writing this, there is only a month left in the contest.
- Keyboard support
Using a keyboard on the kurobox will require support (I think) in the kernel. This support is not provided in the regular kurobox kernels so a custom kernel will have to be built or possibly just a module. Someone has created a virtual console driver for LCDProc, I am hoping this will work for the LCDKuro project. If not I may have some long nights ahead coding.
At the start of the project, I discovered my kernel does not have USB Keyboard support. In my .config file I have:
# # USB HID Boot Protocol drivers # # CONFIG_USB_KBD is not set
I am using Sylver's 22.214.171.124 uImage kernel I so I prepared the kernel source per his instructions he graciously provided in the kurobox forums. This is what I did to create a new kernel and keyboard modules:
# cd /usr/src # wget http://kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v2.6/linux-220.127.116.11.tar.bz2 # wget http://genbako.vodapone.com/kurobox-sources-2.6.17.patch # wget http://www.holtmann.org/linux/kernel/patch-2.6.17-mh1.gz # tar xjf linux-220.127.116.11.tar.bz2 # cd linux-220.127.116.11 # patch -Np1 < ../kurobox-sources-2.6.17.patch # gzcat ../patch-2.6.17-mh1.gz | patch -Np1 # vi (or nano) Makefile # add -mh1 to EXTRAVERSION = .1, result: EXTRAVERSION = .1-mh1 # cp /boot/.config .config # export ARCH=ppc # make oldconfig # this step may be uneccessary but I did it anyway # make menuconfig # select Device Drivers -> USB support # # navigate down to USB Human Interface Device (full HID) support # # press 'M' to select support as a kernel module # # Exit # # Exit # # Exit Yes (Save configuration) # make vmlinux && make modules && make modules_install
Also, to be sure since I didn't know which compiler Sylver used to build the kernel, I re-built my uImage kernel like this:
# wget http://www.kurobox.com/sylver/u-boot/mkimage # chmod 0755 mkimage # mv mkimage /usr/bin/ # make uImage # mv /boot/uImage /boot/uImage.bak # cp arch/ppc/boot/images/uImage /boot/ # mv /boot/System.map /boot/System.map.bak # mv /boot/.config /boot/.config.bak # cp System.map /boot # cp .config /boot
The newly built usb module is usbhid. With the new module in place in /lib/modules/kernel/126.96.36.199-mh1_kuro-box (from make modules_install), the driver can be checked with the following command:
# modprobe usbhid # # now plug in your keyboard # dmesg usb 2-1: new low speed USB device using ohci_hcd and address 3 usb 2-1: configuration #1 chosen from 1 choice input: Logitech USB Receiver as /class/input/input2 input: USB HID v1.10 Keyboard [Logitech USB Receiver] on usb-0000:00:0e.0-1 input: Logitech USB Receiver as /class/input/input3 input: USB HID v1.10 Mouse [Logitech USB Receiver] on usb-0000:00:0e.0-1
My dmesg is now showing a keyboard and a mouse (I'm using a wireless logitec combo, I won't be using the mouse for this project).
Connecting the Display
The day the display arrived. Wow, it looks great. I connected the display to my kurobox with the provided USB cable. Output in dmesg:
usb 2-1: new full speed USB device using ohci_hcd and address 5 usb 2-1: configuration #1 chosen from 1 choice
That's it. I did not expect more than that. Next step is to get LCDProc talking to the display.


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One thing that that really get's to me is theist who think they have the right to not be offended and all people who enable this behaviour.
I find it hard to find a theist who will have an open discussion about why they believe in a personal god at all or why they think their god is real and all the other ones aren't. Yesterday I remarked on the hypocritical nature of the followers of xtianity and was met with no argument as to why what I said was wrong but that it was rude. When I asked why it was considered rude I was told that I should have respect for peoples religion. I disagree, I'll respect your right to have religion, by all means believe whatever crackpot fairy tales you like but if you are not willing to be offended and stand up for what you believe in then you need to take a serious look into why that is.
Most of the theists I know don't argue because they do not even care weather or not their god exists, they go to church on Sunday and go about their lives as if they were Atheists. But I know there are theists out there who might care but are too afraid of being offended by talking to an evil non believer so they just tell you that you are rude.
Are people just being too polite or am i really too insensitive?
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Well said.
My sentiments, exactly.
Some theist do respond negatively when questioned about their beliefs, but then many do not. I had two Mormon boys stop by to spread the good news and we had a long (several hour) conversation in my living room where I seriously challenged their beliefs. I saw them become a little upset but this is understandable for someone who has seriously listened to my line of thinking. I hope that just a little bit of doubt crept into their minds. To accomplish this, I was very careful not to make light of their ideas, but instead offer up alternative ways of seeing things. One of them told me how it made perfect sense that god would contact someone in the new world to be his "prophet" (Little Joey Smith) and spread the word. I had a hard time not laughing. Instead I pointed out that Smith already had a record of being a scam artist before he was contacted by god, if he really was. I pointed out how convenient it was that only he was allowed to see the golden tablets or could read them. I pointed out how other religions prior to Christianity had similar stories about virgin births etc. I pointed out how it made no sense that an omnipotent god would need to resort to some of the things the bible says.
I also listened to what they had to say. I took the time to let them talk and was ready to offer up alternative ways of seeing these things. In the end, they left with a handshake and asked if they could return to discuss things further. They came back a couple of weeks later as I was walking out the door and I could not speak with them. I hope they come back again because they seemed to have listened, even if they come only to set me on the path to god. At least I have the opportunity to affect these to young men's ideas and maybe the things I said will make some difference in the future.
I was very careful to not be offensive talking to these young men and gathered all the patience I could muster. Had it been a Pentecostal Holiness member who opened with "You are going to hell if you don't see the way", I may have not been so polite, but I challenge myself to always start out being open minded enough to think they may listen to my side. That is not an easy thing to do.
As you said, many if not most of the Christians who go to church, do so for community and do not really even understand much of what is said in the service. I saw that when I was a boy going to my parents Lutheran church. They pledged their lives to living in a way that was commendable really if they followed it, but not a one seemed to remember a thing they had pledged as soon as they left the church. But maybe we should look that these kinds of Christians a little differently than we seem to. These are the people who claim themselves religious, but are reachable with the right message. Offered an alternative, at least some of these moderate Christians could end up abandoning their ideas for more secular view if they are shown a positive example. The only way to do this is by being positive and not assuming that they will respond in the way you said. Otherwise you have assured that the outcome will be as you suggested. Even if nine out of ten of your christian friends do respond to your ideas badly, the one that does listen and is persuaded, is a win for secularism. The other nine...who knows, they might spit at your now, but if you treat them with at least civility and do not attack them, one day they may remember this and let some better ideas in.
Then again, one might just catch you in an ally and beat the crap out of you in the name of the almighty.
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If people are offended by reality and reason... well... good-luck to them. People need to grow out of this babyish hypersensitive business of offence and grow up. Sometimes I think theists (and even wishy-washy agnostic appeasing types) are going to have a mental breakdown when I mention even basic facts. Sigh. We really are blinded by our emotions in seeing the facts of reality.
so true!
Matt, what I do originates from needs I feel.
If I say or imply "They are hypocrites" I'm expressing a need I have.
What was your need when you remarked on the hypocritical nature of the followers of xianity?
BTW Matt, when the x in xmas replaces a name, why do you write xtian and not xian?
He writes x-tian because he reads x-mas aloud/internally as "Chris-mas," since we do not pronounce the 't' in Christmas. Yes, x=Christ but it sounds like x=Chris. Chris + ian = Chrisian. So, he's adding a 't' to keep his inner narrorator from saying Chrisian and making him cringe when he types xian.
When I read x-mas, I hear "Ecks-mas." Reading xian makes me hear "Zee-an." But I'm just silly like that.
Thanx, Kairan. I hear ecks-ian the way you hear ecks-mas.
Tain't silly; I say Xerox as Zerox. Down with consistency!
You're running up against a cultural taboo by asking people to defend their beliefs. Giving religion a pass is like the compulsion to be politically correct or mindless reverance toward all cultural traditions. In theory, it's good to build a polite social atmoshpere when a society is made up of people from diverse backgrounds. However, this everything-goes-attitude can hold back our intellectual and moral development by allowing falsehoods and barbaric behavior to flourish. Religion should not be immune to criticism.
You're seeking intellectual honesty and moral transparency. That's not always valued as it should be, especially by those entrenched in a world view so very dependent on its adherents' blind faith and their rejection of critical evaluation. Given that we all know what a world run by the faithful was/is like, I think you're being rather too sensitive!
Kairan, I don't know if you addressed your post to me.
I don't ask people to defend religious beliefs. My everything-goes attitude is me cooperating with natural selection -- the fittest survive. I see religion as a kind of medication -- an addicting drug -- for people who are not fit. If they want to kick the habit, I will do what I can to help.
If they don't want to kick the habit, I don't let them lay it on me. I start by saying religion is the biggest fraud that has ever been perpetrated on humankind. I'm an activist; I start with words and follow up with political action.
If it sounds hard-hearted, it's self-interest at work. The more people who look for happiness in a future life, the fewer people I have to share this life's happiness with.
My post is in reply to the OP.
Also, I think it is in your self-interest to promote a secular society.


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